About

Al Daniel is a Featured Columnist at the Bleacher Report, focusing on the Boston Bruins, and served as the site's on-site correspondent at the 2012 NCAA Men's Frozen Four in Tampa, Fla.

Daniel began his sportswriting endeavors upon enrolling as a sophomore at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minn. There, he covered the school's elite hockey, soccer and figure skating programs for various school, town and state publications. During his senior year, he also served as a student-publicist for the school's nascent robotics program.

Among the student-athletes Daniel met and covered at Shattuck were current NHLers Jonathan Toews, Kyle Okposo and Derek Stepan, U.S. Olympians Jocelyne Lamoureux and Monique Lamoureux and Major League Soccer players Teal Bunbury and Ben Sippola.

After graduating from SSM in 2007, Daniel moved back to his native Rhode Island to attend Providence College. Assigned to the women's hockey beat at the campus newspaper, he expanded his portfolio by serving as the Hockey East correspondent to Beyond The Dashers, a site dedicated exclusively to women's hockey news, for two years.

Between SSM and PC, Daniel covered four USA Hockey national championships, a Silver Stick tournament, the 2007 Great Lakes Invitational, two Women's Hockey East championships and the 2011 Women's Frozen Four.

In his budding career, Daniel has covered boys and girls youth hockey, youth soccer, men's and women's college hockey, high school football and minor league baseball. The many events he has attended have taken place in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, Pennsylvania, New York State, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia and Florida.

Short List

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Pro hockey- 3/27/2010: Bruins 5, Flames 0 College hockey (W)- 3/5/2011- Boston College 3, Providence 2 (OT) Baseball: 8/8/2004- Red Sox 11, Tigers 9 Basketball: 2/25/2009- Providence 81, No.1-ranked Pittsburgh 73

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    The Celtics eight-year (1959-1966) NBA championship dynasty.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    With all due objectivity, Bobby Orr. If his knees hadn't failed him, he surely would be the only defenseman with more than 2,000 career points. And scoring wasn't even his primary job.

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big East. Name me one other conference that has sent more than half of its tenants, let alone 11 of them, to the national bracket.

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  • Jesse Golomb posted 12 days ago

    Jesse Golomb

    Al,

    I'd love to talk to you about an opportunity to write for my website. Please shoot me an email at JesseGolomb@TheFanManifesto.com if you're interested.

    Jesse Golomb
    Editor-in-Chief
    TheFanManifesto.com
    914-629-2836

  • Steve Wolosewich posted 115 days ago

    Steve Wolosewich

    Great article on the Winter Classic 2013, Al.

  • Travis Graham posted 158 days ago

    Travis Graham

    Hello Al, I would love to talk to you about a few things, please contact me at grahamt14@gmail.com

  • Tori Gearey posted 222 days ago

    Tori Gearey

    HI Al, love your articles. I am currently trying to put a 2011 stanley cup poster together that would have newspaper/internet articels and photos. Was wondering if I could use some of yours?

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